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Atlas Is Shrugging In The US And Flexing His Muscles Elsewhere
American Thinker ^
| June 23, 2011
| Monty Pelerin
Posted on 06/23/2011 5:30:04 PM PDT by rob777
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posted on
06/23/2011 5:30:10 PM PDT
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rob777
To: rob777
Every company in the entire world should move its corporate headquarters to The Caymans.
That would solve everything.
To: rob777
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posted on
06/23/2011 5:44:34 PM PDT
by
TxDas
(This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
To: rob777
What happened to the Twentieth Century Motor Company, Dagney, where did it go?
Why did it go, Hank?
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posted on
06/23/2011 5:46:46 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
To: ADemocratNoMore; Aggie Mama; alarm rider; alexander_busek; AlligatorEyes; AmericanGirlRising; ...
I found this one interesting.
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posted on
06/23/2011 6:04:12 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: rob777
If ol' Atlas is so shortsighted to think the grass is greener on the other side, we're better off if he takes his moving and shaking and search for slave labor elsewhere.
With all our ills, we're still the greatest and most free country in the world.
I don't put much stock in the pretentious fiction of a "philosopher" whose worldview was based on the "virtue of selfishness". Surely we can find a better argument for free markets than from that woman.
To: Publius
I was reading this one as you sent the ping! How about that?
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posted on
06/23/2011 6:08:35 PM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
("I shall refrain from using profanity, except when discussing house rent and taxes." - Mark Twain)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
"pretentious fiction" Which of her books have you read?
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posted on
06/23/2011 6:16:25 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(Embrace misanthropy)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Well said, comrade!
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posted on
06/23/2011 6:17:21 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
pretentious fictionIt ain't no "pretentious fiction", Capt., it's a humourless, bombastic manifesto!
To: Revolting cat!
Oops, sorry, I mean Kernel. It’s still unreadable, though.
To: who_would_fardels_bear
When I look at the mess we’re in here in the US and compare it to Australia....
“May 2010, the National Australia Bank forecast that the Australian national debt would peak at $190 billion in June 2013.” ...”net debt is now expected to peak at 6.4 per cent of GDP in 2011-12.”
Meanwhile here in the US, we’re looking at a minimum of 190% of GDP in the next few years by the latest projections I’ve seen.
Interestingly, Australia takes the exact opposite tack as we do in the US and on average only accept immigrants with more skills than the native populace.
They’ve set themselves up to accept Atlas. If this nation tanks or attempts to enslave me as a physician, well, you can’t help but look at other options, as sad as that is.
To: I see my hands
Which of her books have you read? My life is too short to waste on books filled with overlong boring speechs. I did see the 1940s Warner Brothers' hit movie .The Fountainhead. It was no good except for laughs. It featured a neurotic dingbat who tossed statues out windows and whipped lusty hero architech Howard Roarke because he was playing hard to get. The bottom line on Rand is found in Psalms 14:1:
THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART, THERE IS NO GOD
Why would anybody pay attention to the philosophy of a fool?
To: Revolting cat!
Maybe we can use Atlas Shrugged for torture at Guantanamo. Make them listen to that silliness long enough, the terrorists might start talking as much as Hank Rearden does in his infamous speech.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
"Why would anybody pay attention to the philosophy of a fool?" To categorize works you haven't read as pretentious fiction exposes you as the fool. BTW, the book you cited is non fiction.
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To: CaspersGh0sts
Australia is dealing with their own Obama right now.
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posted on
06/23/2011 6:49:44 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
To: Colonel Kangaroo
"If ol' Atlas is so shortsighted to think the grass is greener on the other side, we're better off if he takes his moving and shaking and search for slave labor elsewhere" I don't know what you mean by slave labor in this context. I'm interested in what you have to say and I want to understand. Would you explain?
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To: I see my hands
I wasn’t talking about the ordinary Atlas who leaves the country in a misguided, but benign attempt to find a better land than the USA. I was talking about the narrow special case of the Mighty Atlas who likes his workers to be sweating hard and long, poor and not American. Two totally different categories.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
"narrow special case of the Mighty Atlas who likes his workers to be sweating hard and long, poor and not American" Are you saying you object to employers hiring illegal aliens? Me too. What does that have to do with Rand's philosophy of objectivism? Anything? Nothing? Do you know?
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
"that silliness" You haven't read Atlas Shrugged. How is it you have an opinion?
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